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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this."

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Prince Musician, Singer, Songwriter
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"I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely."

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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright
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"We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer."

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Thomas Keller Chef, Restaurateur
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"Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again."

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Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
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"The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine."

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Osamu Dazai Novelist
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"But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today."

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Alice Miller Psychologist, Author
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"Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time."

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"I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style."

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Andrei Tarkovsky Film Director, Screenwriter
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"Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime."

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Melinda Gates Philanthropist, businesswoman
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"Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born."

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